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[399] The Shadow King
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I’ve tried all adviceStill tumbling down with a smileCries of whisper finds nothing of consequenceDelirium morning and a sunset that night forgets in a blinkI kept thinkingI’ve kept myself from her concerning eyesbut i remain an open book to hermaybe our shadows talk to each other at nightAn epitome of empathyI am healed for a…
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[393] Under The Spell
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Blurry shadows My past haunts I’m feeling worst for the last time Feeling the present for the past nowI learn it all to pass outEpiphanies lost to the morning of patterns and a sunlightIt snows downon yesterday Am I in a dream or a void now?I forget it all into the white Heaven tastes like…
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[388] A New World Dawns
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Inconsistency is something I have been battling lately. I give too much power to my mind to wreak havoc with its lazy and destructive patterns. Control is what I seek and the more I seek it, the more it evades me.The next step in my development would be to capture consistency in my writing and…
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[381] Why We Write
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I write what I deny to think in my own head. I surprise myself as I watch these thoughts become real. It feels like someone else holds the pen and writes things I didn’t know I feel. He writes all that I thought I conquered but all I did was, lose to it.It’s a reminder…
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[380] Vignettes of Lost Glimpses
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Wasted attempts to clothe in words what cannot be told what can only be felt The desired thought erodes all attempt to let it capture itselfA magician’s trickPaintings that cracklose all their huesThe meaning is lost Reinterpretation of the blueDumbed down attempts to strip all facadesThe essence is lost in order to find what cannot…
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[378] The Answers Lie Here
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How much weight do I carry all the way to my craniumall the weight of the worlds’ pretence losing my way in my headTaking it all so seriouslyto believe that a poem needs structurethat it needs rhyme to stay sanewhen it all really needs is emotionand an intuition to guide itAll it needs is a…
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[377] Lessons That Need Repeating
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Never thought I’d be back here The familiar mistake like lighting up cigarettes Learning to forget Committing only to let goI burn up all our memories in vain to let the pain goEvasive clarity the epitome of cyclical timePretension masked as profundity I let history repeatLost epiphanies to laziness of not writing it down so…
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[375] Lost in a Daze
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Things you try to replace take the shape of the unrecognised but they arrive back deceitfully Like a cyclone arrives in the wind lamenting the past furiously Singing praises of crimes Faltering steps you take to hide your life of yesterdayDust finds its way to pass time but you forget that the past hibernateseven if…
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[374] Infinite Jest of Living
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It’s the end of the worldI’m screaming to no one at allA lonely death of a lonely mind finding peace in its plightCaressing regrets of our timesSleeping with kindness at nightOh it’s the end of the worldEmpires of kings and queens flashes of a dynastyKillings of a hundred languagesExtinct animals used to practice Lying under…
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[372] Know Yourself, Know Others
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How many times have you observed people in their private spaces alone and being their honest selves? There’s an ease or a disquiet consuming the way their body moves We’ve probably only watched ourselves in those private moments and we know how different we would behave if there was another person amidst our environment so…
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[369] The Death of Ego
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Chase the high Find the light I’m a weary soul tumbling down I will be born again I will make mistakes Is it too late to call it off now? 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘈𝘴𝘤𝘦𝘯𝘵. Stuck in an avalanche Burying beneath the past A snowy mirror reflecting a void avoiding the forgotten lake of time Deforestation…
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[367] The Night Never Ends
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Forgetful growth I learn that it’s easier to remember an existing memory than to form a new one It’s easier to learn because forgetting is seamless and all learning is really in the end is a seamless task of forgetting little details around as I close my eyes and wake to A whole world that…
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[365] Little World of Infinities
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Find your little world and reach the end of its infinity Then travel in search of knowledge in its little mistakes and detours To be able to find our way to cure our general malaise even after finding our bliss Let us forgo it all, so we find another world The base fear that drives…
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[364] The Negative Space
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The familiarity of the unfamiliar passes in my mind like a muffled sound It puts me to sleep so I don’t let it overwhelm me with pain I try to understand, analyse, hear, see it but its foreign language evades me The confusion brews about a pressure cooker feeling I try to ignore, deflect, hide,…
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[363] Looking Beyond
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Ancient wisdom hidden in plain sight Like secrets that can’t be told It seems to transcend thought lying in the great beyond waiting for the giant leap forward and standing up to the image of fear The blink of an eye waiting to open offering us a chance to witness the true nature of a…